Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.